Having lived near railroad tracks as a kid, my very first thought was the sound is most likely a train going over poorly maintained tracks. Sure enough if you look up Terrace, BC in Google Earth there's a large railyard right in the middle of town.

LavenderWolf:truchaos: I know it sounds like bullshiat but I heard the same sound in Gambrills Maryland last year. It was accompanied by a very intense low frequency vibration that literally made the air pressure feel like it was modulating very rapidly. The only way I can describe it was while I was hearing the sound, it was like I was inside a subwoofer speaker but the sound definitely was coming from the sky.

I stopped an looked all around there was nothing close within 100 yards but the post office. The sound pressure was very high and I've never heard anything like it in my life. I felt it in my body as much as I heard it.

My brother insists I was hoaxed but I'm an engineer and for the life of me I cannot figure out how that could have been possible based on the shear energy of the sound and how far way I was from anything that could have made it. It was clearly coming from directly overhead but I saw nothing.

The only thing I can figure is that it's caused by some weird atmospheric phenomenon or possibly some interaction of the atmosphere and a solar wind or flare. .

/ Not the submitter.

Funny that you heard that sound...

Which is a farking movie sound effect, and this video is a hoax. You idiot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08yk_AQvGMk

You can show that something is a hoax without insulting people. It's really easy. Just say "Nah it's a hoax, here's a link." Then you can link your source. It's easy. If you feel the need to add insults, than you're the one with a bigger problem.

I'm amazed that my neigbouring town has made it to Fark. Yeah, everyone was going nuts last week talking about the noise, wondering what it was. I still don't think we know for sure but I don't think the world's ending just yet.

Which is a farking movie sound effect, and this video is a hoax. You idiot.

People make fake UFO videos too, in a poor attempt to discredit videos no one can explain.

This is absolutely true. People who know the real videos aren't fake will fake videos that look not real enough to show people that the videos that are real might look real but are faker than the faked fakes but are actually real, which is what they don't want you to believe.

The article says a local claimed it was someone grinding down a road grader blade. My dad worked with graders for fifteen years, I've been in the shop and have heard this sound countless times. Iif you listen to the hum, you can even hear the skip off the blade a bit, it's were the sound goes from steady to the won won won wooon, Anyone who has been in an active metal shop knows the sound.

Which is a farking movie sound effect, and this video is a hoax. You idiot.

People make fake UFO videos too, in a poor attempt to discredit videos no one can explain.

This is absolutely true. People who know the real videos aren't fake will fake videos that look not real enough to show people that the videos that are real might look real but are faker than the faked fakes but are actually real, which is what they don't want you to believe.

MrHappyRotter:I'm 97.4% sure it was aliens. I assume there is a 2.6% chance it wasn't, considering this happened in Canadia, it might've been a herd of meese.

'Sup, you old reprobate. We all miss you around that place. Doulos is back.

On-topic, because I have to be, that hum was abviously man-made by power tools. I've made it myself on occasion, but I politely shut my garage door when running the Dremel, and thus stay out of the news.

Geoff Leventhall, a noise and vibration consultant who has advised the government on the issue, says that we will not know the cause for many years: "It's been a mystery for 40 years so it may we issull remain one for a lot longer."

Darkrover2:Geoff Leventhall, a noise and vibration consultant who has advised the government on the issue, says that we will not know the cause for many years: "It's been a mystery for 40 years so it may we issull remain one for a lot longer."

Lady Indica:truchaos: I know it sounds like bullshiat but I heard the same sound in Gambrills Maryland last year. It was accompanied by a very intense low frequency vibration that literally made the air pressure feel like it was modulating very rapidly. The only way I can describe it was while I was hearing the sound, it was like I was inside a subwoofer speaker but the sound definitely was coming from the sky.

I stopped an looked all around there was nothing close within 100 yards but the post office. The sound pressure was very high and I've never heard anything like it in my life. I felt it in my body as much as I heard it.

My brother insists I was hoaxed but I'm an engineer and for the life of me I cannot figure out how that could have been possible based on the shear energy of the sound and how far way I was from anything that could have made it. It was clearly coming from directly overhead but I saw nothing.

The only thing I can figure is that it's caused by some weird atmospheric phenomenon or possibly some interaction of the atmosphere and a solar wind or flare. .

/ Not the submitter.

When I was a kid in southern CA we had the same thing in the mornings, and it would vibrate and make that same eerie sound. As a kid...I honestly thought it was the radio waves going through the house, that's what I made sense of it. My mother could hear it most of the time as well, and she didn't know what it was. My dad left for work early and never (AFAIK) heard it. We'd hear it...I want to say twice a month, my recollection is a lot more often than that, but ...child memory, impossible to say.

I would love to know what it was though. And if it was of a frequency that perhaps older people can't hear or something.

Here's what I know about hearing: I can hear not only the Mosquito (a buzzing sound that only teenagers supposedly can hear), I can hear much, much higher pitches than that. As in, the sound of an older TV being turned on. Some people have a huge range. It's entirely possible that some people--TFA says two percent of people--have a low range, and thus hear something that makes a lot of low-level noise, but exists on the same range as the Mosquito.

/Can't listen since I don't have earbuds, but hopefully my range is high-pitched enough so I can't hear the Hum//Unlikely///On the other hand, those of us who read Island of the Aunts can just imagine the Kraken is healing the ocean...

Which is a farking movie sound effect, and this video is a hoax. You idiot.

People make fake UFO videos too, in a poor attempt to discredit videos no one can explain.

This is absolutely true. People who know the real videos aren't fake will fake videos that look not real enough to show people that the videos that are real might look real but are faker than the faked fakes but are actually real, which is what they don't want you to believe.

I'm not high (yet), but hot damn, I'm confused. I'll come back in an hour.

LavenderWolf:SirEattonHogg: I hope there are no more postings on this thread. LavenderWolf already definitively solved the entire mystery by calling everyone who thought they heard this noise, an "idiot".

Case closed.

Damned right.

A few specific cases are well documented. If you hear one of those, you know already what it is, or at least what to attribute it to.

There have been literally thousands of these videos popping up with the same stolen sound effects from Red State and War of the Worlds. Exactly like in the video from OP.

TL;DR: If you actually heard a big booming noise, I'd put $50 on there being documentation on it. If you see a video titled "STRANGE SOUNDS HEARD ALL OVER CANADA" it's a farking fake.

Except that the rest of the town said the sound happened, and the mayor even explained it away, acknowledging it existed.

This one seems to be a real sound being recorded, not a faked video. Whether or not the source of the sound is a grinder echoing across the whole town, or some weird spooky unknown thing is another question. Nobody at TFA or in the town have questioned or challenged the video, though, and in fact have backed it up.

A few specific cases are well documented. If you hear one of those, you know already what it is, or at least what to attribute it to.

There have been literally thousands of these videos popping up with the same stolen sound effects from Red State and War of the Worlds. Exactly like in the video from OP.

Okay, you've definetly peaked my curiousity. I find conspiracy theories interesting and heard about this one but if the debunking is done well, I like to hear about it. I don't think its aliens or secret weapons of course, but I figured it might be some industrial process.

Lady Indica:truchaos: I know it sounds like bullshiat but I heard the same sound in Gambrills Maryland last year. It was accompanied by a very intense low frequency vibration that literally made the air pressure feel like it was modulating very rapidly. The only way I can describe it was while I was hearing the sound, it was like I was inside a subwoofer speaker but the sound definitely was coming from the sky.

I stopped an looked all around there was nothing close within 100 yards but the post office. The sound pressure was very high and I've never heard anything like it in my life. I felt it in my body as much as I heard it.

My brother insists I was hoaxed but I'm an engineer and for the life of me I cannot figure out how that could have been possible based on the shear energy of the sound and how far way I was from anything that could have made it. It was clearly coming from directly overhead but I saw nothing.

The only thing I can figure is that it's caused by some weird atmospheric phenomenon or possibly some interaction of the atmosphere and a solar wind or flare. .

/ Not the submitter.

When I was a kid in southern CA we had the same thing in the mornings, and it would vibrate and make that same eerie sound. As a kid...I honestly thought it was the radio waves going through the house, that's what I made sense of it. My mother could hear it most of the time as well, and she didn't know what it was. My dad left for work early and never (AFAIK) heard it. We'd hear it...I want to say twice a month, my recollection is a lot more often than that, but ...child memory, impossible to say.

I would love to know what it was though. And if it was of a frequency that perhaps older people can't hear or something.

sorry, no street view. but I do love science and how you can echo out an open buildings doors and annoy the neighbors by grinding out a few chords on with the old grinder on a large chunk of heavy gauge steel..

Louisiana_Sitar_Club:This is absolutely true. People who know the real videos aren't fake will fake videos that look not real enough to show people that the videos that are real might look real but are faker than the faked fakes but are actually real, which is what they don't want you to believe.

And a bunch of people starting with a couple brits stamped down many fields of grain in complex patterns with boards and twine to cover up the actual spaceships that were creating such patterns. Even the shooters don't know who killed Kennedy! It was Marilyn! The syph made his head blow up and a bone fragment hit Connelly.

Louisiana_Sitar_Club:This is absolutely true. People who know the real videos aren't fake will fake videos that look not real enough to show people that the videos that are real might look real but are faker than the faked fakes but are actually real, which is what they don't want you to believe.

A few specific cases are well documented. If you hear one of those, you know already what it is, or at least what to attribute it to.

There have been literally thousands of these videos popping up with the same stolen sound effects from Red State and War of the Worlds. Exactly like in the video from OP.

Okay, you've definetly peakedpiqued my curiousity. I find conspiracy theories interesting and heard about this one but if the debunking is done well, I like to hear about it. I don't think its aliens or secret weapons of course, but I figured it might be some industrial process.

I was going to say, it sounds like a ship's metal hull scraping against another hull or a rock. I've heard that up close when a tanker rubbed another ship while empty and that was pretty goddamn loud and intense.

Alternatively, it could be the sound of anguish of all the tea partiers that boehner supports the Prez on something. Either way.

Also, lavendarwolf: was your injury to your soul? Seriously stop being a dick.